藥劑車

設計：Emilie Taylor Welty (教授),Nick Jenisch (項目經理),Elizabeth Bateman,Jeremy Baudy, Anna Deeg,Claire Divito,Rebecca Dunn,Adrian Evans,Danelle Martin,Danielle Scheeringa,Bhumika Shirole,Zach Speroni,James Rennert,Dana Ridenour

設計如何開啟對話，并作為宣傳和教育的工具？

藥劑車，許多移動的裝有藥劑的車，試圖讓我們想象沒有監獄的景象。美國有220 萬犯人，約9 萬人無限期單獨監禁。疏離、人性喪失、絕望、迷失方向、偏執、自殺意念，單獨監禁帶來的無法彌補，近乎毀滅的影響遠不止這些。囚犯藥劑車從受大規模監禁荼毒最深的社區采取植物，轉化為藥。藥劑師根據交談或書信為全美國單獨監禁犯人提供天然藥物、茶、酊劑、蒸汽和藥膏。只有被監禁犯人能夠設計藥物并分發給曾經破壞過的社區，反而賦予了他們特別的機會來治愈千瘡百孔的社區。流動藥劑師車，或“藥劑車”，是一批倡導監獄改革，讓治愈正義在新奧爾良市可見和可及的草藥車。

Apothecarts 由杜蘭建筑學院的學生在2020 年秋季設計和建造而成。旨在為增加社區設計機會，改進設計過程，培養新一代建筑師創造更公正的世界付出不懈努力。學術工作室包括建筑學學生團隊與當地非營利組織，計劃、設計并制作了一個有社區參與的最佳設計和實踐項目。這項行動研究包括訪談、區域專家教學、觀察和調查等設計階段。設計選擇再交由參與過最終多階段反饋循環或本例中兩個小的構建項目的核心涉眾組指導。Apothecarts 項目著眼于聯系設計、廢除與社會正義，展示了設計影響復雜社會問題的無限可能。

How can design start a conversation and serve as tool for advocacy and education?

The Apothecarts are a series of mobile apothecary carts that challenge us to imagine a landscape without prisons.There are 2.2 million incarcerated people in the United States,and of those around 90,000 are subjected to indefinite solitary confinement every day.The devastating,and often irreparable,effects of solitary confinement include,but are not limited to,alienation,dehumanization,despair,disorientation,paranoia,and suicidal ideation.The Prisoner’s Apothecarts are a series of mobile healing units that transform plants from Solitary Gardens into medicine for communities most deeply impacted by the insidious reach of mass incarceration.The apothecary produces natural medicine,tea,tinctures,steams,and salves in conversation (written letters) with folks in solitary confinement across the US.As the medicine is designed by folks who are incarcerated and distributed to affected communities,incarcerated individuals now have a unique opportunity to heal the communities they are often accused of harming.The mobile apothecary carts,or“apothecarts,”are a series of herbal medicine carts that advocate for prison reforms and make healing justice visible and accessible across the City of New Orleans.

The Apothecarts were designed and built during the fall of 2020 by students at Tulane’s School of Architecture.This work is an ongoing effort to expand design access across our community,improve the design process,and prepare a new generation of architects to create a more just world.This academic studio pairs a team of architecture students with a local non-profit to program,design,and fabricate a project that models design excellence and best practices in community engagement.This research is action based and includes interviews,area expert teach-ins,observation,and surveys as part of the project design phase.That research then directs the design options presented to a core group of stakeholders who participate in a multistage feedback loop resulting in a final built project,or in this case two small built projects.The Apothecarts project is focused at the intersection of design,social justice,and abolition and shows the potential of design to impact complex social issues.